18 Apr
2012
18 Apr
'12
6:36 p.m.
On 04/18/2012 01:02 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
Mailing lists are like democracy: They're the
worst way to do things,
they're just better than any of the alternatives.
I don't mind them, or usenet for that matter. I just generally dislike web
forums because of the high signal/noise ratio (layout cruft vs. actual
information), poor layout (e.g. very few seem to manage to even thread
messages), the need to have separate user credentials for each one, and the
need to poll each one (vs. having all the information come to me under a
common UI as with usenet and email).
Kids today seem to think they're great though... :-)
cheers
Jules